Ben Kim – originally from Portland Oregon – has walked off with the Rheingau Festival prize.
It’s worth 15,000 Euros and a big footprint on the German circuit.
Ben lives in Berlin and goes rock-climbing twice a week.
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Congrats to Ben! Cannot wait to hear his music at the Reingau Festival.
His music? Is he a composer too? Or is it like Lang Lang who talks about ‘his music’ when he actually means Beethoven, Chopin et al?
Congratulations to the young man! But I can’t help thinking that rock climbing is hardly the most ideal hobby for a pianist. Surely the additional stresses and strains can’t do much for the muscles in the hands and wrists.
Not to mention the very high risk of tendon injuries, which can take months to heal.
Mr Kim was using figurative speech, he meant Listz’s ‘Etudes Transcendentales’ in the arrangement of Josef Hoffmann – music for 3 hands played by 2.